Café Blackbird
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This is my first visit to this west end caf. I had a lunch which was a vegetarian panini and coffee. It was so nice to hear that you get one free refi…
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Café Blackbird
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The borscht was great, the coffee and chai latte were bland! No flavour in the chai unfortunately. The staff are always very friendly and kind…
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I try to be generous and fair while reviewing foodie spots, so let's start with good points. Cool live music - check. Decent coffee beverages - check.…
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Café Blackbird
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8 Reviews on “Café Blackbird”
The borscht was great, the coffee and chai latte were bland! No flavour in the chai unfortunately. The staff are always very friendly and kind
I try to be generous and fair while reviewing foodie spots, so let’s start with good points. Cool live music – check. Decent coffee beverages – check. Smallyet interesting wine list with artisanal wines – check. Polite and friendly service – check. I guess that’s it. Any time I have tried food, whether sandwiches or pastries, all tasted dry and lacking flavors. If price tags were friendly, I could probably forgive quality of food, but they are high. Overall impression: Blackbird is a good spot to enjoy morning coffee and newspapers, and that’s it.
Very Poor service, poor coffee! They forgot half our order the last time we were there. it’s to bad because the location is great and we need a great coffee place in our community. This however is not it
As Pictured on the First Photo, the Slamon Open Sandwich. We were expecting a ‘closed’ sandwich, but were quite satisfied with this presentation , and the quailitiy of taste… the pickeled onions and fresh spinach make this a signature dish for the cafe
Dissapointing Coffee. Had passed by this cafe numerous times along my morning strolls and today decided to finally check it out. Tucked away in the beautiful neighborhood of Crestwood this cafe was definitely open and spacious with an inviting young lady who greeted me as I walked in. First thing that caught my eyes was the good looking food in the display case. The menu even more as it had some delicious brunch and lunch items that definitely made my mouth water. Having gone in for coffee I decided to order a cappuccino. Now I’ve had cappuccino’s in Italy and OMG out of this world but is Italy the only place I can get my fix..? Don’t have unlimited air miles unfortunately. As soon as the young lady delivered my coffee my heart sank. Is it really that IMPOSSIBLE to find in this city a place to get a cappuccino that is made properly. Italians take great pride in there coffee, these people go to cappuccino schools to perfect this work of art. A chef studies or masters the kitchen before they open up a restaurant right.? Why cant the same be done for those who open up cafes. I guess I will just have to wait till we go back to Italy to have my beloved cappuccinos. As for going back to Blackbird…..yes food menu looked great and Eggs Benny are my weakness. Will just have to go without the coffee.
Overall a very nice experience. I quite enjoyed caf blackbird, the location was in a trendy little strip mall in a trendy little space with a very homie yet sophisticated feel. It kind of felt like a marriage between a wine bar and a community caf. The drinks were fantastic, I went with my girl and we tried each others drinks so I got to have a taste of 4 different drink items, and they all blew my socks off. my standout favourite was the espresso martini which they have been making specially for Edmonton coffee week, but the maple whiskey hot chocolate was great to. They use iconoclast coffee, a local roaster who does pretty good work.Prices were a bit steep though. Even excluding the specialty coffees (liquor is always expensive) it was still a little more than the going rate on drinks. And though I thought the service was fine all-in all (the owner and the barista were both very friendly) I can see what some of the other commenters are referring to when they say it was bad. See, In terms of service, Blackbird doesn’t seem to have it all figured out, they push you to take a seat and wait for table service like its a sit down restaurant, that’s fine, we intended on staying a while, but a walk-up counter implies a different arrangement, and on top of that hey missed out on the accompanying trappings that make the sit-down arrangement good, like asking how everything was or asking if we want anything else which they were only patchy at at best. It was like a weird hybrid between a sit-down experience and your standard caf arrangement, it didn’t make it unbearable but it was certainly awkward.I feel like I would have really enjoyed this place on one of its live music nights, it has a good setup for that and the above average drink price but high quality drinks would have seemed very appropriate with a nice jazz show or a folk set.
Just fine!. Went to meet a friend for coffee to plan a trip and the Wifi was not working- thank goodness for Telus wifi/shaw open. Coffee was good and my muffin was tasty. My friend had a panini which was perfectly normal. Service was very fast (likely as the place was empty) and the staff were nice. No major complaints. But no praise either.